bitter : Idioms & Phrases

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bitter almond

  • noun almond trees having white blossoms and poisonous nuts yielding an oil used for flavoring and for medicinal purposes
    Amygdalus communis amara; Prunus dulcis amara.
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bitter almond oil

  • noun pale yellow essential oil obtained from bitter almonds by distillation from almond cake or meal
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bitter aloes

  • noun a purgative made from the leaves of aloe
    aloes.
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Bitter apple, Bitter cucumber, Bitter gourd

  • . (Bot.) See Colocynth.
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bitter betch

  • noun European perennial toxic vetch
    Vicia orobus.
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bitter cassava

  • noun cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca
    Manihot utilissima; mandioca; Manihot esculenta; gari; mandioc; tapioca plant; manioc.
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bitter chocolate

  • noun pure unsweetened chocolate used in baking and icings and sauces and candy
    cooking chocolate; baking chocolate.
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Bitter cress

  • noun any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic
    bittercress.
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  • (Bot.), a plant of the genus Cardamine, esp. C. amara.
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bitter dock

  • noun European dock with broad obtuse leaves and bitter rootstock common as a weed in North America
    yellow dock; Rumex obtusifolius; broad-leaved dock.
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Bitter earth

  • (Min.), tale earth; calcined magnesia.
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Bitter end

  • noun the final extremity (however unpleasant it may be)
    • he was determined to fight to the bitter end
  • noun (nautical) the inboard end of a line or cable especially the end that is wound around a bitt
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  • that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and so within board, when the ship rides at anchor.
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bitter floom

  • noun any of several pink-flowered marsh plant of the eastern United States resembling a true centaury
    Sabbatia stellaris; rose pink; Sabbatia Angularis; marsh pink; American centaury.
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bitter hickory

  • noun hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts
    bitternut; Carya cordiformis; bitter hickory; bitternut hickory; swamp hickory.
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bitter lemon

  • noun tart lemon-flavored carbonated drink
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bitter orange

  • noun any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock
    sour orange; bigarade; bitter orange; marmalade orange; Seville orange; Citrus aurantium.
  • noun highly acidic orange used especially in marmalade
    sour orange; Seville orange.
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bitter orange tree

  • noun any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock
    sour orange; bigarade; bitter orange; marmalade orange; Seville orange; Citrus aurantium.
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bitter pea

  • noun any of several spiny shrubs of the genus Daviesia having yellow flowers and triangular seeds; Australia
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bitter pecan

  • noun hickory of southern United States having many narrow leaflets and rather bitter nuts
    water bitternut; Carya aquatica; water hickory.
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bitter pignut

  • noun hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts
    bitternut; Carya cordiformis; bitter hickory; bitternut hickory; swamp hickory.
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bitter principle

  • noun any one of several hundred compounds having a bitter taste; not admitting of chemical classification
    bitter principle.
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Bitter principles

  • noun any one of several hundred compounds having a bitter taste; not admitting of chemical classification
    bitter principle.
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  • (Chem.), a class of substances, extracted from vegetable products, having strong bitter taste but with no sharply defined chemical characteristics.
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Bitter salt

  • Epsom salts;; magnesium sulphate.
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bitter salts

  • noun hydrated magnesium sulfate that is taken orally to treat heartburn and constipation and injected to prevent seizures
    Epsom salts.
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bitter spar

  • noun a light colored mineral consisting of calcium magnesium carbonate; a source of magnesium; used as a ceramic and as fertilizer
    dolomite.
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Bit"ter spar"
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  1. A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.
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Bitter vetch

  • (Bot.), a name given to two European leguminous herbs, Vicia Orobus and Ervum Ervilia.
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bitter-bark

  • noun ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and yielding Georgia bark for treating fever
    Georgia bark; fever tree; Pinckneya pubens.
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Imitation oil of bitter almonds

  • nitrobenzene.
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Oil of bitter almonds

  • a poisonous volatile oil obtained from bitter almonds by maceration and distillation; benzoic aldehyde.
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To the bitter end

  • to the last extremity, however calamitous.
Webster 1913